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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-2377: pidgin security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-2377: pidgin security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/06/2017
Created
12/05/2019
Added
12/04/2019
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent by the server could potentially result in an out-of-bounds write of one byte. A malicious server can send a negative content-length in response to a HTTP request triggering the vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libpurple

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